 He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen, nor rolled...  The Sewanee Review - Page 391910Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...butlet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to telt you when the storm doth come 5 But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse ; When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ;... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...comes down the boy» to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roul'd bullet heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous...such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would chuse, VV hen she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.'... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous...persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would sheto an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes? * This Prologue, which... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble sotuib. is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...creaking throne conies down, the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous...such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse, * When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes;... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...please, Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To Bay, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell...such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would chusc, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ; Except... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...please ', Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rull'd bullet heard To jay, it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm is come. The theatrical artillery of the 'sky appears, VOL. III. II THEATRES in fact, during this long... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...creaking throne comes down, the boys to please, Nor nimble squib Is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor...persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make them such,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...nor tempestuous drum Rumhles, to tell you when the storm doth come : Rut deeds, and language, sue h as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show ;m image of the times, Ac , sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make them such,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...manners of his own days, he made them speak like ordinary human beings, showing " deeds and language euch as men do use. And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the tunee, And sport with human follies, not with crimes."* We may believe, therefore,... | |
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